A display and sale appliance for flat goods or flat good packages

ABSTRACT

A display and sale appliances for flat goods or flat good packages, comprises a main shelf subdivided in compartments, in which goods carriers are pivotally disposed near the front edges of the compartments over a predetermined angle. Each goods carrier includes a common hollow base body and insertion pockets fanlike disposed around the axis of the pivots of the goods carriers and upon the goods carriers and having lateral limiting members and intermediate partitions consisting of wires, rods or the like, said limiting members consisting for all insertion pockets of each goods carrier of one uniform integral wire, rod or the like.

United States Patent Germany P 16 11 750.3

A DISPLAY AND SALE APPLIANCE FOR FLAT GOODS OR FLAT GOOD PACKAGES 1 Claim, 7 Drawing Figs.

US. Cl 211/99, 2l1/170,312/327 Int. Cl A471: 88/118, A47f 5/08, A47f 5/12 Field of Search 312/328,

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Primary ExaminerRamon S. Britts Att0mey-Allison C. Collard ABSTRACT: A display and sale appliances for flat goods or flat good packages, comprises a main shelf subdivided in compartments, in which goods carriers are pivotally disposed near the front edges of the compartments over a predetermined angle. Each goods carrier includes a common hollow base body and insertion pockets fanlike disposed around the axis of the pivots of the goods carriers and upon the goods carriers and having lateral limiting members and intermediate partitions consisting of wires, rods or the like, said limiting members consisting for all insertion pockets of each goods carrier of one uniform integral wire, rod or the like.

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PATENTEU JUN29 um SHEET 2 BF 3 ZIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII A DISPLAY AND SALE APPLIANCE IFOR FLAT GOODS R FLAT GOOD PACKAGES The invention relates to a display and sale appliance for flat goods and flat good packages such as shirts or other clothes, comprising a main shelf or frame subdivided into compartments.

Especially dress shirts and similar flat and flat visibly packaged clothes are usually stacked in shelve, one above the other. The selection of the single good from the piles of stacked goods according to the size, style and appearance is difficult and requires considerable time. A sufficient view over the stacked goods is not given, neither for the buyer nor for the seller.

In the hitherto appliances for display and advertising purposes only one piece of the goods is made visible and accessible, whereas the easy accessible storing of a number of these goods is not possible.

It is one object of the invention to provide a display and sale appliance for flat goods and sorted flat goods which makes storing of ranges of flat goods possible, which is simple in structure and easy in manufacturing and handling, and makes self-selling of the goods possible.

For this purpose a display and sale appliance of the above type is provided, in which goods carriers are pivotally disposed about horizontal pivots near the lower front edge of each compartment for a predetermined angle, each said carrier including a common hollow base body having integrally joined an upper wall, a vertical front wall, a lower horizontal wall and sidewalls, the latter carrying said horizontal pivots of said hollow base body, insertion pockets for said goods fanlike or starlike disposed around the horizontal axis of said horizontal pivots and upon said upper wall of said hollow base body, the latter defining the bottoms of said insertion pockets having lateral limiting members and intermediate partitions consisting of wires, rods or the like, and being attached to said hollow base body.

Another object of the invention is to simplify the insertion pockets parts of the good carriers of the display and sale appliance and to make the inserted goods as visible and accessible as possible.

For this purpose said lateral limiting members of all insertion pockets of each goods carrier include one uniform integral wire, rod or the like attached with one end at one side to the bottom of the foremost insertion pocket, said wire, rod or the like extending horizontally a given distance and then extending vertically upwardly to an intermediate height of the overall height of said insertion pockets, said wire, rod or the like extending at said intermediate height at first horizontally outwardly and then along one lateral side of all insertion pockets of said goods carrier to the last, innermost of said insertion pockets, and being guided behind this last insertion pocket, said wire, rod or the like subsequently extending along the opposite lateral side of all of the insertion pockets to the foremost insertion pocket, wherein said wire, rod or the like extends horizontally inwardly is then bent downwardly therefrom and subsequently extends horizontally to a position at which its other end engages the bottom of the foremost insertion pocket at the other line 1 thereof and is attached thereto.

Other details and advantages of the invention are described and illustrated in the following specification in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which some embodiments of the invention are represented.

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of one of the goods carriers disposed in the compartments of the main shelf of the display and sale appliance in retracted position in side view,

FIG. 2 shows the same goods carrier as in FIG. 1 in side view, in forwardly turned position,

FIG. 3 shows the same goods carrier as in FIG. I and a part of the main shelf in front view,

FIG. 4 shows another embodiment of the goods carrier, in side view, in retracted position,

FIG. 5 shows the same goods carrier as in FIG. 4, in side view, in forwardly turned position,

FIG. 6 shows the same goods carrier as in FIG. 4, in front view,

FIG. 7 shows,one goods carrier of FIGS. 4 to 6 disposed in a compartment of the main shelf of the display and sale appliance in perspective view from the back side, in enlarged scale.

In the drawirigs FIGS. 1 to 6 show an embodiment of a goods carrier 3 for flat goods or flat good packages, such as dress shirts pivotally disposed at the lower front edge of each of the compartments of a main shelf 1, subdivided in at least two horizontal ranges of compartments with bottom walls 2, preferably of wood plates, artificial material, metal or the like.

Each goods carrier 3 includes a common hollow base body 4 which has an upper wall 5, a vertical front wall 6, a lower horizontal wall 7 and lateral sidewalls 8 and 9, to which are attached the horizontal pivots 10 of the hollow base body 4 interengaging bearing supports 11 attached to the bottom wall 2 of each shelf compartment.

In the embodiment of FIGS. 1 to 3 the upper wall 5 is subdivided in staggered disposed wall parts 12, I3, 14 interconnected with each other. Whereas in the embodiment of FIGS. 4 to 6 the upper wall is in the shape ofa quarter ofa circle.

Upon the upper walls 5 and 5 of the base body 4 each of said goods carriers 3 has a fanlike or starlike about the horizontal axis of the pivots 10 disposed insertion pockets 15, 16, 17 for the goods or the goods packages, which have lateral limiting members 18, intermediate partitions 19 and closed bottoms defined by the staggered wall parts 12, l3, 14 of the upper wall 5 in FIGS. 1 to 3 or the circular wall 5' in FIGS. 4 to 6. The limiting members 18 and partitions 19 of the insertion pockets consist of wire, rods or the like and being attached thereto.

Each of the partitions 19 consists of one uniform wire, rod or the like in U-shaped form inserted with the free ends into holes of the bottom walls I2, l3, 14 or 5 of the insertion pockets 15, 16, 17 and attached thereto.

In front of the foremost insertion pocket 15 and the vertical front wall 6 of the hollow base body 4 an additional advertising insertion pocket 20 is provided adapted to receive a model good piece. The bottom of this additional insertion pocket 20 is defined by a prolongation wall part of the lower horizontal wall 7 of the hollow base body 4 or by wires.

The limiting members 18 of all insertion pockets 15, l6, 17 of each goods carrier 3 consist of one uniform integral wire, rod or the like, one end of which is attached at one side to the bottom of the foremost insertion pocket 15. Said wire, rod or the like extends with a part 21 horizontally and then vertically upwardly to an intermediate height of the overall height of the insertion pockets 15, I6, 17, extending subsequently at this intermediate height at first horizontally outwardly and then along the one lateral side of all of the insertion pockets I5, 16, 17, subsequently is guided behind this last insertion pocket 17 and extends then along the opposite lateral side of all insertion pockets I7, 116, 15 to the foremost insertion pocket 15, wherein it extends horizontally inwardly, and is then bent with a part 22 downwardly therefrom and extends subsequently with a part 21 horizontally to a position at which its other end engages the bottom 7 of the foremost insertion pocket 15 at the other side thereof and is attached thereto. The parts 21 of the wire, rod or the like define the bottoms of the additional insertion pocket 20.

The lateral limiting members 18 for all insertion pockets 20, 15, 16, 17 are spaced from each other somewhat more than the vertical wire parts of the intermediate U-shaped partitions 19 for better support and separation of the inserted flat goods in the adjacent insertion pockets. 0n the short front parts 23 of the limiting members 18 any plate 25 for designation of the single goods carriers 3 or the sorted goods inserted therein may be attached.

In FIG. 7 a perspective view of one goods carrier 3 according to the embodiment of FIGS. 4 to 6 in a compartment of the main shelf 1 from the back side with parts of the main shelf 1 and its compartments and in interconnection with said goods carrier 3 are better clearer visible represented than in the schematic FIGS. 1 to 6.

lclaim:

1. An exhibition and sale appliance for ranges of flat goods or flat good packages, such as shirts or other clothes or flat cloth packages, comprising a main shelf or frame subdivided in compartments in which goods carriers are pivotally disposed about horizontal pivots near the lower front edge of each compartment for a predetermined angle, each of said goods carriers including a common hollow base body having integrally joined an upper wall, a vertical front wall, a lower horizontal wall and lateral sidewalls, the latter carrying said horizontal pivots of said base body, insertion pockets for said goods being fanlike or starlike disposed around the axis of said pivots and upon said upper wall of said hollow base body, the latter defining closed bottom walls of said insertion pockets having lateral limiting members and intermediate partitions consisting of wires, rods or the like and being attached to said hollow base body, said lateral limiting members of all insertion pockets in each of said goods carriers include one integral wire, rod or the like attached with one end at one side to the bottom of the foremost of said insertion pockets of each of said goods carriers, said wire, rod or the like extending horizontally a given distance and then extending vertically upwardly to an intermediate height of the overall height of said insertion pockets, said wire, rod or the like extending at this intermediate height at first horizontally and then along one lateral side of all of the insertion pockets of said goods carrier to the last, innermost one of said insertion pockets, and being guided behind this last insertion pocket, said wire rod or the like subsequently extending along the opposite lateral side of all of the insertion pockets to the foremost insertion pocket, wherein said wire, rod or the like extends horizontally inwardly, is then bent downwardly therefrom and subsequently extends horizontally to a position at which its other end en gages the bottom of the foremost insertion pocket at the other side thereof and is attached thereto. 

1. An exhibition and sale appliance for ranges of flat goods or flat good packages, such as shirts or other clothes or flat cloth packages, comprising a main shelf or frame subdivided in compartments in which goods carriers are pivotally disposed about horizontal pivots near the lower front edge of each compartment for a predetermined angle, each of said goods carriers including a common hollow base body having integrally joined an upper wall, a vertical front wall, a lower horizontal wall and lateral sidewalls, the latter carrying said horizontal pivots of said base body, insertion pockets for said goods being fanlike or starlike disposed around the axis of said pivots and upon said upper wall of said hollow base body, the latter defining closed bottom walls of said insertion pockets having lateral limiting members and intermediate partitions consisting of wires, rods or the like and being attached to said hollow base body, said lateral limiting members of all insertion pockets in each of said goods carriers include one integral wire, rod or the like attached with one end at one side to the bottom of the foremost of said insertion pockets of each of said goods carriers, said wire, rod or the like extending horizontally a given distance and then extending vertically upwardly to an intermediate height of the overall height of said insertion pockets, said wire, rod or the like extending at this intermediate height at first horizontally and then along one lateral side of all of the insertion pockets of said goods carrier to the last, innermost one of said insertion pockets, and being guided behind this last insertion pocket, said wire rod or the like subsequently extending along the opposite lateral side of all of the insertion pockets to the foremost insertion pocket, wherein said wire, rod or the like extends horizontally inwardly, is then bent downwardly therefrom and subsequently extends horizontally to a position at which its other end engages the bottom of the foremost insertion pocket at the other side thereof and is attached thereto. 